Hair drier shield



ug, E0, 1948. SCQLA v 2,446,790

HAIR DRIER sHIELb I Filed Feb. 5, 1946 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 by mag Aug, 1948. A. N. SCOLA .2,44s,790

HAIR DRIER SHIELD Filed Feb. 5, 1946 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 with; gay wfliaeys Aug. 1@, 1948. A N scOLA 2,446,790

HAIR DRIER SHIELD Filed Feb. 5, 1946 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Aug. 10, 1948 STATES ATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

This invention relates to hair drying apparatus and especially to an improved sanitary hood adapted to cooperate with the delivery end of a drier and conduct air therefrom to the head and through the hair of a person being treated. Important features of the invention relate to novel hood construction providing freedom of movement to the person being treated and adapted to cause the air to pass through her hair and escape from the hood upwardly in a direction away from her body. In driers heretofore employed the escaping air has been permitted to pass downwardly about the person whereby not only causing discomfort and illness but also causing damage to the customers clothing. My invention contemplates a novel hood constructed to eliminate this objection.

My invention furthermore contemplates a sanitary hood for individual use adapted to be easily and conveniently applied and as easily removed after each individual use. In its preferred form the hood comprises a sheet of flexible fabric having opposed marginal portions constructed conveniently to cooperate with a drier and the head of a person being treated and to form a tubular conduit adapted most efiiciently to cause the drying air to pass to and through the hair. The construction of the improved hood permits of easy laundering or cleaning and this feature, in combination with the provision of means for conveniently applying and removing the hood in use,

adapts the invention to maximum sanitary individual use in which a fresh hood is employed at each individual treatment.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of preferred embodiments thereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Fig. l is a side elevation of one form of my invention in use,

Fig. 2 is a like view of a modified construction,

Fig. 3 is an open view of the hood,

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3,

Fig. 5 illustrates a modified hood construction,

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the hood supporting ring taken on line 66 of Fig. 5,

Fig. 6a is an enlarged fragmentary side elevation of Fig. 5,

Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line 17 of Fig. 5,

Fig. 8 illustrates a further modified hood construction,

Fig. 9 is a view taken on line 9-9 of Fig. 8,

2 Fig. 10 is an enlarged fragmentary view taken on line Ill-l of Fig. 9,

Fig. 11 is a side elevation of a further modified construction,

Fig. 12 is a view taken on line l2-l 2 of Fig. 11,

Fig. 13 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line I3-l3 of Fig. 11,

Fig. 14 is a side elevation of the Fig. 11 construction somewhat modified,

Fig. 15 is a view taken on line [5-15 of Fig. 14,

and

Fig. 16 is an enlarged fragmentary view taken on line IEI6 of Fig. 15.

My invention contemplates improved hair dry- 15 ing and treating apparatus which is economical to produce, efiicient in operation and provides greater comfort and protection for the person being treated. The apparatus more particularly concerns a flexible hood in tubular form adapted 20 comfortably to fit the head and embodies means son being treated whereby providing comfort to the customer and protection to her clothing. The hood is readily detachable from the drier so that it can be removed and cleaned and a fresh hood employed for each treatment.

In the drawings, It indicates a bell shaped drier which may or may not employ an adapter I2 at its larger and open end. The drier is supported on an adjustable post l4 with its open end directed downwardly. As illustrated in Fig. 1, my

novel hood [5 cooperates directly with the open end of the drier. As illustrated in Fig. 2 the hood cooperates in like manner with the bottom end of the adapter 12 into the top end of which is directed the open end of the drier. The adapter is preferably constructed of a suitable plastic and is supported ona post l6 adjustable within a bracket l1 secured to the chair Hi. When the adapter is used it may be considered as a, part of the drier and the hood is attached thereto in like manner.

In Fig. 3 I have illustrated the hood as formed from a sheet l5 of suitable fabric. The ends of the sheet are stitched together along the edges 26 to form a tubular body. One end margin of the body (Fig. '7) is looped over a core and stitched at 2! to provide a flexible bead 22. The other end margin (Fig. 4) is looped over a draw string or elastic cord 24 and flared upwardly and outwardly at 25. This end portion of the sheet is provided with a plurality of groups of vent open- 3 ings 26 therethrough and is stitched at 2'! and 28 below and laterally of the groups to form pockets 29 disposed respectively about the groups of openings and open at their top portions.

The beaded end 22 of the hood is open to and including snap fasteners 34. This end is adapted to cooperate with the open delivery end of the drier or adapter and in Figs. 6, 6a and '7 I have illustrated novel means by which the hood can be conveniently attached to and detached from the drier. A split ring 33 is provided with a tightening screw 3| at its ends for drawing the ring into firm engagement with the open delivery end of the drier. The ring is shaped to form an annular channel at and extending about this end of the drier and has an open slot 32 thereinto permitting passage of the hood as illustrated in Fig. 7, the bead being of greater diameter than the Width of the slot. In use the bead 22 is threaded through the channel to a point preferably beyond the ring joint at the screw 3i, and the ends are secured together in overlapping relation by the snap fasteners 34.

The lower end of the hood is mounted on the head. of the customer with the cord 25 at the hair line as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, either by elastic cord or draw string tied at the rear. Air coming from the drier passes downwardly through the hair and can escape only through the holes 26 which are locatedsubstantially at the hair line. The escaping air passes outwardly into the pockets 29 formed by the stitching 27 and 28 and from thence, due to the baille 25, can escape only upwardly and outwardly. Thus no escaping air is permitted to pass downwardly onto the customer and such objectionable features as the following, heretofore present. in apparatus of this nature, are eliminated: body discomfort, spoiled make-up and oily skin caused by contact of heated air, perspiration, coldcaused by heated air contact, wrinkled clothes due to heat drying, :etc. It will furthermore be apparent that the flexible hood permits freedom of head movement and otherwiseadds to the-comforter the customer.

In Fig.5 I have illustrated-asomewhatimodified form of hood embodying a .sheet et-of flexible fabric having a lower portion 31 of relatively coarseweave providing air escape openings therethrough, this portion being :locatedsubstantially at the hair line like the vent openings 26. A fabric bathe 38 similar to the bafile 25 projects upwardly and outwardly from the vdrawstring'end of the hood in position causing air escaping through the coarse mesh at 31' to pass upwardly and outwardly as illustrated in Fig. 5. The hood can be otherwise substantially like the hood 1-5. If desired the ring '30 can be provided with a full-yopen channel, like that illustrated at EB in Fig. 13, and a draw string provided'on the *hood in lieu of the bead 2 2.

In Figs. 8-10 I have illustrated a modified construction embodying a split ring 40 mountedon the open delivery end-of the drier and having an annular row of buttons lZ on and'disposed about such end. The top end of the hood 43 is provided with button holes "64 for cooperating with the buttons to-attach the sheet tothe drier. In this case the hood has no vent openings and the air isp'ermitted to escape only through gaps '46 providedbetween the hood and ring. These gaps are formed by spacing the button holes apart on the hood a distance greater than the-buttons, as illustrated in Fig. 9.

In Figs. 11-13 I have illustrated a modified construction embodying a split ring 50 mounted on the open delivery end of the drier and carrying a plurality of abutment spacers 52 in spaced relation on and about its circumference. A second ring 54 is mounted on the spacers in spaced relation from the ring 50 and is shaped to provide an outwardly open channel 56 therearound. The hood 58 is provided with a draw string 60 within its lapped end 62 and this end is seated in the channel and held therein by knotting the draw string at 66. The ring 5!! is tightened onto the drier by a screw 65 and a gasket 68 can be employed to prevent escape of air between the ring and drier.

In Figs. 14-16 I have illustrated a construction similar to that shown in Figs. 11-13 except that the outer ring 10 is provided with buttons 12 and the hood E4 is provided with button holes 16 for engaging the buttons. In this case the button holes are spaced equal with the buttons to provide a close fitting of the hood against the ring Ill. It will be apparent that the hoods illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5 can be attached to the drier by buttons in the manner illustrated in Fig. 14.

In the form of invention illustrated in Figs. 11-16 the hood and drier are closed against the escape of air except for the gaps 69 and ll between the inner and outer rings. The air passes downwardly from the drier to and through the hair and escapes upwardly through these gaps remotely from and without contact with the customer.

It will now be apparent that I have produced a superior hair drying apparatus adapted for use with standard drying equipment and including means for combining the same in use. The improved apparatus includes a flexible hood constructed and arranged to giveadded comfort and protection to the person being treated and adapted conveniently to provide a clean and sanitary hood individually to each customer. It will be apparent that the improved hood permits ample freedom of head movement, prevents the escape of warm air onto the customer, efficiently conducts the air from the drier to and through the hair of the customer and causes the escape of the air upwardly and outwardly away from her body. The apparatus furthermore permits easy application of the hood to and its removal from the drier whereby providing for easy and'proper cleansing of the .hoods following each use and the employment of a clean hood for each .customer.

Having now disclosed my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Hair drying apparatus comprisinga sheet of flexible fabric having one margin adapted to-cooperate with the delivery end of a drier in position forming atubular'hood adapted to receive air from the drier and a relatively remote-margin adapted to fit on and about the head of aperson to be treated and having air escape openings therethrough and disposed about the head fitting margin, and bafile means attached to :the sheet below and outside of said openings and .iorming a. baffle wall extending upwardly andoutwardly of the sheet about said remote margin, the baffle wall forming a pocket with the sheet open at the top around said remote margin, for directing the escaping air upwardly and outwardly-away "from the person being treated.

2. The apparatus defined in claim 1 in which said ballle means comprises pockets disposed-respectively about the openings and open :atftheir top portions, the pockets beingrformed of fabric secured to the hood below and laterally of the openings.

3. Hair drying apparatus comprising a sheet of flexible fabric having one margin adapted to cooperate with the delivery end of a drier in position forming a tubular hood adapted to receive air from the drier and a relatively remote margin adapted to fit on and about the head of a person to be treated, a portion of said sheet adjacent to said relatively remote margin being of relatively coarse weave providing air escape openings therethrough, and a fabric baflie attached to the sheet below and outside of said coarse weave portion and extending upwardly and outwardly away from said sheet about said remote margin, the

bafile forming a pocket with the sheet open at the top around said remote margin, for directing the escaping air upwardly and away from the person being treated.

4. The hair drying apparatus defined in claim 3 in which said fabric bafiie is stitched to said sheet and comprises a unit therewith.

5. Hair drying apparatus comprising a sheet of flexible fabric having one margin adapted to cooperate with the delivery end of a drier in position forming a tubular hood adapted to receive air from the drier and a relatively remote margin adapted to fit on and about the head of a person to be treated and having air escape openings therethrough and disposed about and adjacent to the head fitting margin, and bafile means attached to the sheet below and outside of said openings and extending outwardly away from the sheet, the bafile means forming a bafile wall preventing downward movement of air escaping from said openings and the chamber between the baffle wall and sheet being open at its upper portion to permit free escape of said air to the atmosphere.

6. Hair drying apparatus, in combination with the open annular delivery end of a drier, comprising a sheet of flexible fabric in tubular form having one end margin thereof attached to the drier over said delivery end in position to receive air therefrom and having an opposite end margin adapted to fit about the head of a person to be treated and having air escape openings therethrough adjacent to the head fitting margin, and a baflle wall attached at its bottom margin to the tubular sheet below and outside of said openings and extending upwardly therefrom about and in spaced relation from the tubular sheet, the space between the wall and tubular sheet being open at the top, to direct the escaping air upwardly and outwardly to the atmosphere and away from the person being treated.

7. The combination defined in claim 6 plus means providing an annular open channel at and extending about said delivery end of the drier, and a flexible bead on said one end margin of the sheet seated in the channel.

8. The combination defined in claim 6 plus an annular row of buttons on and disposed about said delivery end of the drier, and means on said one end margin of the sheet for cooperating with the buttons to attach the sheet to the drier.

ALFRED N. SCOLA.

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